| "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" | ||||
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| Single by Linda Ronstadt | ||||
| from the album Hand Sown ... Home Grown (1969 version) Don't Cry Now (1974 single release version) |
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| B-side | "Don't Cry For Me Now" | |||
| Released | February 1974 (Asylum version) | |||
| Format | 7" | |||
| Recorded | October 3, 1968 (Capitol version) June 1973 (single version) |
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| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | Asylum 11032 | |||
| Writer(s) | Jack Rhodes and Dick Reynolds | |||
| Producer(s) | Chip Douglas (1968 version) J.D. Souther (1973 version) |
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"Silver Threads and Golden Needles", a song written by Jack Rhodes and Dick Reynolds, was first recorded by Wanda Jackson in 1956. The original lyrics, as performed by Jackson, contain a verse not usually included in later versions, which also often differed in other minor details.